I'm awaiting my shipment of the brand new homebrew Sega Genesis/Mega Drive RPG, "Pier Solar and the great architects" to arrive in the mail. Yes I shit you not, someone made a new unlicensed RPG for the Sega Genesis. lol I got the confirmation e-mail on Monday. Now I have to wait up to 20 days for it to ship from China. Fingers crossed that it arrives just before Christmas. I'm hopeful for that. If not, for sure I'll get it before New Years. I pre-ordered this game a bit over a year ago and it's been sold out for a few months now. Some people have had this game pre-ordered for 2 years. Maybe 3 . It's been in development for awhile.
The makers of the game are western (the team lead is Brazilian and I think the rest of the guys, or most of them anyway, are from Europe) but the feel of the game is in line with 16-bit Japanese rpgs as opposed to western rpgs.
You can check out their website here: www.piersolar.com
I still have to set up my Sega Genesis to my obese tubular ancient SDTV and check to see that it's functioning properly (I think it might have gotten wrecked this past summer because a whole lot of wood shavings fell on top of the cartridge slot of the system). My Genesis when it was bought 18 years ago came with something called an RF Switch. lol. Sega never released component cables for the Sega Genesis (given how bloody ancient the hardware is, makes sense) so you have to spend a fortune in order to get a component cable setup to work with the Genesis. And while Sega did officially release a composite cable for the Genesis (with mono audio. You have to plug headphones or speakers into the Genesis' headphone jack in order to get stereo audio I believe), my VGA box doesn't officially support composite (the color has a greyish tint and the picture looks grainy as hell). So it would look like shit on my 1080p HD monitor without component cables.
Given that I've always played on the Genesis using the RF switch on a SDTV, it's not that big of a deal I guess. Though apparently composite provides a better picture with Genesis games and component looks even better (less blurry, less grainy, more vibrant colour). That all said, in my personal experience 16-bit low-res games (played through emulators) look hideously pixellated on my 720p 15.6" laptop monitor (played in full screen. It looks fine when it's not blown up), let alone a 1080p 21.5" screen.
